White Papers

12.29.23

Achieving a Racially and Ethnically Equitable Health Care Delivery System in Massachusetts

This report proposes a vision and action plan that offers an organizing structure, process, and set of practical steps for achieving a racially and ethnically equitable health care delivery system in Massachusetts. The report is accompanied by a Health Equity Action Plan Toolkit (Toolkit) of ...




12.06.23

Trials and Tribulations

In prior reports, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) described the challenges that patients and caregivers face when seeking medically necessary blood cancer care in the United States, especially when they need highly specialized care that is not available in their health plans’ ...




12.06.23

State Telehealth Policy Trends: 2023 Year in Review

Three years following the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), states across the United States continue to enact permanent changes to telehealth laws that impact how physicians and other health care professionals can deliver care remotely.




11.09.23

Leveraging Health Care Cost and Affordability Data: A Suite of Analytic Resources

State leaders seeking to understand the drivers of health care costs and their impact on residents can leverage a growing number of available data sources—with information on state-level health care costs and affordability—that can complement their own datasets.




11.07.23

Issue Spotting Common Policy and Operational Barriers to Ex Parte Renewals: State Assessment Tool

Many states are actively working to make changes to their systems to enable ex parte renewals at the individual level and implement mitigation strategies to ensure eligible Medicaid and CHIP enrollees retain coverage until those system changes are complete.




11.02.23

Leveraging Medicaid to Support Children and Youth Living With Complex Behavioral Health Needs

  Jocelyn Guyer, Senior Managing Director, Manatt Health | Gina Rogari, Manager, Manatt Health | Michaiah Parker, Senior Analyst, Manatt Health | Sheamekah Williams, President of Evolution Foundation | John O’Brien, Consultant The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the ...




10.19.23

New CMS Guidance: 12 Months of Continuous Enrollment for Children Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP

Last year, Congress enacted Section 5112 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA) requiring all states to adopt one-year of continuous enrollment (CE) for children effective January 1, 2024




10.18.23

CMS Releases Third Batch of State-Reported Unwinding Data

Prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program On September 29, the Centers and Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) published a new release of state-reported Medicaid unwinding data through its Unwinding and Returning to Regular Operations ...




10.13.23

The Impact of Medicaid Telehealth Policy Change on Equitable Access to Telehealth Services in NC

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 catalyzed a dramatic rise in telehealth adoption and use in the United States.




10.12.23

The Presumption of Validity Is Dead; Long Live the Presumption of Validity?

The patent application examination requirement is statutory based rather than a Constitutional requirement. Since the passage of the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA), the number of new patent applications filed each year has exceeded 500,000, while the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ...